Organizations - Couverture souple

Kühl, Stefan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472413415 ISBN 13 : 9781472413413

Editeur : Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

How - as members, customers, voters or patients - do we deal with organizations: public administrations; universities and schools; hospitals; prisons; political parties; or the military? The systems theory developed by sociologist Niklas Luhmann is among the twentieth century's seminal scientific achievements, commensurate perhaps only with Einstein's theory of relativity, Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, or Freud's analysis of the unconscious. While systems theory is not easily accessible, the subject of organizations offers an opportunity to gain insight into the fecundity of this approach. This book is the first in which Luhmann's organizational theory and an introduction to systems theory have been presented in such brief and succinct form and will be readily grasped by a new audience. The author of Organizations argues that, in future, the elaborate conception that systems theory has put forward will be the standard that other theoretical approaches to explaining organizations will have to meet.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stefan KÃ1/4hl studied sociology, historical science and economics at the University of Bielefeld, Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Université Paris-X-Nanterre, and the University of Oxford. He is a professor of organizational sociology at the University of Bielefeld and one of the leading system theorists working in the field of organizational science. He works as an organizational consultant for Metaplan, a consulting firm based in Princeton in the USA, Paris, Hamburg and ZÃ1/4rich.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472413415
• ISBN 13: 9781472413413
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
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• Personne responsable: non disponible